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Thanks! Your info helps. I do know they'll be getting chemo and I'll need to be chemo certified after a year. Other than that, I don't know much yet about the unit. I have to take some hospital provided classes and get 6 weeks on the floor orientation. The rest I'll find out about next week.

Anyone work in this specialty? I will be working on a neuro/oncology floor and have no idea what to expect. Is this a normal combination of specialties? It seems a little strange to me...

I was an LPN for 8 years before completing an LPN-BSN program. I just kept the same job as an RN. That's not one of your options! :)

I am right there with ya, but I hate to tell you.....you won't get very far as a new grad BSN, either. I have had my BSN since 2013 and still can't get into a hospital....always passed over for someone with more experience, and it sucks. My LPN experience doesn't count either, unfortunately. I'm ready to throw in the towel, too. Hang in there....hopefully you will have better luck!

Ah....good luck educating HR. They already have a job, so they don't care! I've run into this many, many times! I have gone to bypassing HR and going directly to the hiring manager. Poor HR is so overloaded (sarcasm). I almost missed out on a job fair....HR said "We're looking for RN's with a year of experience..." 15 months wasn't experience to them. I had to call and tell them, and they looked again at my resume.

Why were you told not to approach NM? Also keep an eye out for job fairs.

Not many at all, unless you have a year of direct care RN experience.

These days THIS is what you need to do! I signed up for a job fair, and HR emailed me back saying I didn't have the one year they required in order to be "invited" to the job fair. I called them back and said oh yes I do....they reviewed my resume and I went to the job fair. I have an interview at a local hospital tomorrow with the NM. (oops, sorry, I intended to quote your original post about emailing the NM directly.)

The pre req's are not all the same. I never took inorganic chem. I did take chem 1 and 2, micro, A&P, etc.

Very well written, as always, Commuter!

Chances are, she was a MA, not a nurse, unless you saw her title. My MD's office only has MA's and they are called "nurses" by the staff, my PCP included. I don't consider this abuse or neglect.....sounds like she was trying to assess how urgent the need for the MRI was. Out here, waiting 2-3 months for a MRI isn't unheard of....whether it can be scheduled out or not.

Should they give you a degree for free? I went to UoP and did their LPN-BSN program, and I have a counselor helping me find jobs before I landed this one I am starting. Of COURSE they want your money. Money makes the world go round. So, the question really is what can you do about getting a low cost education?

Wooohooo!! Also, keep in mind, even though you know CONTENT you have to be able to figure out what the question is asking. It's not like the questions in school where the answers are all cut and dried. I made that mistake when I took mine the first time...thinking I knew the answer when I really didn't know what the question was asking. There is also a review thru Kaplan you can sign up for and they go more in depth with how to figure out the questions. For you 2, 3, 4+ time test takers, I recommend that, also.

Hang in there. It does get better. Try to give it at least a year. I spent 6 in LTC as an LPN and was charge on the medicare unit with 15-20 patients because the RN in house didn't want to do it. The first month will be totally overwhelming, but after that you'll find you can manage time better and know what to expect. When I worked nights in LTC, we had 2 nurses for a 120 bed facility. You can do it!

I assure you....you are not the first person to feel this way, believer or not. (((HUGS)))